https://www.facebook.com/events/211499429008084/Calling something a “supergroup” is asking for trouble. All too often such bands end up less Cream and more Asia—you can even have a guy from Nirvana onstage with a guy from Led Zeppelin and still be disappointed. But Corrections House,
an experimental industrial project launched late last year, seems to
have chosen its lineup for maximum heaviness, not maximum marquee value.
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front man Mike IX Williams and Neurosis vocalist-guitarist Scott Kelly
hold down the front line, supported by Chicago-based engineer Sanford
Parker on programming and Bloodiest/Yakuza vocalist Bruce Lamont on
saxophone and effects. The brand-new Last City Zero (Neurot) is
as brilliant and intense as you’d expect, given the personnel involved:
Parker’s Godflesh-flavored mechanical beats propel massive, dramatic
guitar riffs and Williams’s damaged shrieks through Lamont’s bleak
soundscapes. Here and there the band demonstrates a flair for dynamic
contrasts: the title track is pensive spoken word from Williams, while “Run Through the Night”
is a spaghetti-western acoustic track, with Kelly’s bellowing vocals
filled out by triumphant saxophone wails. But Corrections House are at
their finest when they go full Wax Trax!—I love the insanely heavy
gallop of “Bullets and Graves” and the earth-rattling assembly-line gnashing of “Dirt Poor and Mentally Ill.” Tonight’s show is a release party for Last City Zero. —Luca CimarustiBloodyminded and DJ Scary Lady Sarah open.